The Artisanal & Small Mining Africa-Network (ASMAN) a civil society organization focused on the development and promotion of responsible and Artisanal and Small Scale Gold Mining (ASGM) in Ghana, is alarmed that the inability of government, to institute a policy that will regulate and eventually abolish the use of mercury by Small Scale Miners in the country, may cause many operators in the industry to die from the long term and bio accumulated effects of been exposed to the amalgam (mixture of gold and mercury)